Day: June 13, 2013

The usual Puebla Monday airing will now air tomorrow at the usual time (and apparently next Monday, schedule subject to change.)

IWL is listed as on, but it never got posted last week. I assume it was a rerun and they’ll pick up with this past weekend’s show.

== AAA ==

AAA-Televisa: Not sure. I don’t think they’re going to turn the Leon taping around in 15 hours, so they have no new matches. Most likely a full hour (or two) of TripleMania preview. Which will be weird when it airs on UTDN 4 days after the PPV. (I guess they can promote the iPPV replays then?)

AAA-Fusion: Same problem here. We really haven’t heard about any specific tapings past TripleMania, which is strange, but means this show is also without material (unless they take some of the Leon matches.)

FOX: left with Diamante/Pegasso/Triton vs Cancerbero/Raziel/Okumura and Atlantis vs UG on trios.

52MX: Trios tournament and Rush vs Nakamura. Air all of one, please.

C3: Avernos vs Estetas.

TVC Deportes (Puebla): First show has a main event of Atlantis, Mascara, Rush vs Gran Guerrero, Ultimo Guerrero, Volador and second show has a main event Atlantis, La Mascara, Rush vs Gran guerrero, Ultimo Guerrero, Volador Jr.

Terra: Estetas vs Guerreros.

== Other ==

IWRG-AYM Sports: No idea! They didn’t tape Thursday after all, so maybe they’re back to Sunday? Maybe they’ll air a rerun? I’m going to be distracted by an Imposible spot during the main event of TripleMania.

Like this:

TripleMania will be on conventional PPV. AAA confirmed this last night and posted the pricing today. If you order before the show, it’s $18, plus $5 more for HD, plus $2 more if you call to order instead of using the internet. If you wait until Sunday, there’s another $5 surcharge in there. Whatever way you do it, it’s cheaper to buy the iPPV – but you get on TV, which is nice and I’d pay a little extra not to have to deal with cords and multiple screens. No word about that movie theater plan.

AAA’s been doing a lot of press all week to talk about TripleMania. The annual pilgrimage, taking place the same day as Antonio Pena’s birthday, is happening right now.

CMLL closed the En Busca de un Idolo polling much earlier this week, updated the scoreboard, then took the scoreboard down and just posted the final totals. They might have done this because the polling scores made no sense. This is what they appeared to be (based on what they had for the last 3 weeks.)

The numbers on the website didn’t make any sense as they were listed. It looked like they gave Fuego 42 points for the 40 point poll (despite giving the actual winning 40 to Stuka for the third straight week.) What appears to actually have happened is Fuego got 22 points for votes, and they threw in the 20 points for winning his match over Misterioso in the same column. (The last update still had him listed as 1 win instead of 2.)

Walking thru the math fails is truly exciting, but the bigger point here is even the people running this system can’t keep track of these numbers – this point system is wildly unsuccessful. Please make this easy to follow next year, if there is a next year.

For what it’s worth, if you take out the fan poll points, the order would’ve been Valiente, Hijo del Fantasma, Vangelis, Tiger, Stuka, Fuego, Sangre Azteca and Misterioso. The 3/4/5 group are all grouped in within 4 points.

Valiente, Vangelis, Stuka and Fuego advance, three tecnicos and one rudo like last year. Valiente and Stuka are the favorites for making the final two. The intermission trios match this Friday will be Negro Casas, Valiente & Stuka vs Vangelis, Virus and Fuego. Schedule, based on what they announced at the start, looks like

You can now rent the CMLL edecanes – for your corporate or private event. The 16 women currently working as ring girls for CMLL are going to be working as a group named “Chicas Vuelta, Vuelta”, they’ll be booked out thru CMLL’s office the same as the luchadors, they’ll be available to be booked on lucha libre shows as well as other events and they can work as dancers and singers as well. There’s been mentions in the past of some of the CMLL edecans having to choose between working for the promotion or working elsewhere due to conflicts, and this would seem to give them more work if they stay with CMLL. Having all of them at the Father’s Day show this Sunday is the kick off to the initiative.

Super Crazy teams with Ricky Marvin NOAH’s July GHC Junior Tag Team tournament. Pesdailla teams with someone who translates to “Dual Force” as the “Ultraviolent Lucha Libre.” team Maybe Santo Jr. – I guess you can get from Tempestad to Dual Force. The South American team of Kaiser & Gaston Mateo are back as well.

Links

Soul Rocker says Machine is (back?) wrestling with the group tomorrow.